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PHYS460 — Fall 2024

PHYS460: Quantum Mechanics I (Honors)

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Offering:
Fall, Class 3, Cr. 3


Prerequisites:
PHYS 344 and 410
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Description:
Limits of classical physics, wave packets. Bohr model, atomic systems, Schrodinger equation, eigen-functions, one-dimensional potentials, wave mechanics general structure, multiparticle systems, Pauli principle, operator methods.


Instructor(s):
JONES, MATTHEW


Email:
jones105@purdue.edu


Textbook(s) for Fall 2024

Title Author Edition ISBN Publisher Req/Opt Notes
Modern Quantum Mechanics J. J. Sakurai,Jim Napolitano 9781108473224 Cambridge University Press Required

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